Adil Najam, Dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies, recently authored an op-ed for The Conversation reflecting on the lessons learned from a video series in which he interviewed 99 “big thinkers” about how the COVID-19 pandemic will impact the future of world politics, economics, society, daily life, and more. The video series, titled […]
Laurence Delina, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored two new papers on climate change and sustainable development policy in Southeast Asia. In the first paper, published in the journal Climatic Change, he explores the potential for future geoengineering research in Southeast Asia. […]
Kira Sullivan-Wiley, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently presented an overview of the Ecological Forecasting Initiative (EFI) Social Science and Partners & Knowledge Transfer Working Groups. The presentation was recorded as part of a “Town Hall” for the virtual 2020 AGU Fall Meeting. Sullivan-Wiley serves as co-chair […]
Pablo Suarez and Janot Mendler de Suarez, Visiting Research Fellows at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, were recently featured speakers during several sessions of the 2020 Understanding Risk (UR) Global Forum. The biennial conference, organized by The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and the National University of […]
Emily Klein, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a talk for UMass Dartmouth’s School for Marine Science & Technology weekly seminar series. In her talk, Klein explained her research on sustainable ocean management for balancing ecological and human well-being goals. Specifically, she […]
On December 14, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) co-hosted a webinar titled “The Future of Sustainable Development in The World After Coronavirus.” The webinar, which served as the Plenary Dialogue of SDPI’s 23rd Sustainable Development Conference, built on one of the major […]
Heidi Peltier, a Research Professor at the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently participated in a webinar in which she was interviewed on military spending, employment, and contracting for CODEPINK, a grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars. In the conversation, facilitated by CODEPINK co-director Carley Towne, Prof. […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a series of webinars in the fall of 2020 exploring various costs and consequences of the post-9/11 wars. The webinars were part of the “20 Years of War” research series, a two-year collaboration with the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at […]
Neta C. Crawford, Professor and Chair of the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently authored a new paper for The Costs of War project detailing the dramatic increase in civilian casualties in Afghanistan since the United States military relaxed its rules of engagement for airstrikes in the country […]
Former Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow Nicholas Ray and Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Robinson (Wally) Fulweiler co-authored a new paper exploring the impacts of oysters on coastal biogeochemistry. In the paper, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, the authors used a meta-analysis approach to assess how oyster reef restoration and oyster aquaculture development is changing coastal […]